"BEIJING Rush Charles Harris Jersey , March 12 (Xinhua) -- For 26-year-old iPad addict Zhou Wen, going to work is a lot like more play on his beloved device.

Though employed by textile producer the Ruyi Group, Zhou has never used a sewing needle. His job is to drive a battery-powered car around a new Ruyi plant in northwest China to locations shown on the map on his iPad and operate machines there following instructions on the screen.

""It is like a game, with new quests every day,"" Zhou said.

Before Ruyi and many other Chinese companies raced into the digital age Rush Mike Gesicki Jersey , working in its plants wasn't like this. The fact that Zhou's predecessors used to have to walk up to 16 km per shift in their patrols of the machines shows how far China has come in a generation or less.

As industries turn to new technologies under encouragement from the government, labor forces have been liberated and production efficiency massively increased.

Policymakers and entrepreneurs agree that innovation will generate more sustainable growth as China's old model of cheap manufacturing and exports runs out of steam. Industrial modernization is a hot topic at the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's legislature.

Many of the nearly 3,000 deputies to the NPC session going on in Beijing are speaking from personal experience. Among the deputies is Qiu Yafu, Ruyi's chairman.

NPC deputy Wang Minghui is the head of a traditional Chinese medicine company that has seen its profits grow by 30 percent for 16 consecutive years since it started basing its products on modern science as well as tradition.

While some industries like textiles and traditional medicine have been transformed under the modernization drive, others have been created by it.

The less-developed Guizhou Province, for example, now serves as a base camp for the big data industry, with a facility marketed as the world's first big data exchange center.

Wang Wei Women's Kenyan Drake Jersey , another NPC deputy, has benefited from the data as his company is developing all kinds of chips and wearable devices to monitor people's health.

Big data processing requires cloud computing. The Inspur Group, headquartered in Shandong Province, is a leading solution and service provider that builds open data platforms for governments and enterprises.

Inspur entered the U.S. market last year and is planning to build cloud-computing centers in the Belt and Road regional trade and infrastructure network.

China has already contributed a quarter of world economic growth, and many observers believe the national strategy of innovation will bring new vigor to the global economy.

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Unlike Wanda's sudden push to invest in Paramount, Fundamental's marriage with EuropaCorp comes across as a more natural fit as the two have been in a relationship since 2012. According to Fundamental's website, it has "shepherded" the release of a number of EuropaCorp's blockbuster hits in China, including 2014's Lucy starring Scarlet Johnson and the last of the Taken series.

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While the merger of these two media enterprises seems to be a welcome event by both sides, Wanda's recent attempt to buy Paramount Pictures was rebuffed, while its current push to acquire the Golden Globe Awards producer Dick Clark Productions and to ally with Sony Pictures are viewed by many in Hollywood as both aggressive and worrisome.

Relations between the Chinese and overseas film industries have been growing ever tighter. Recent years have witnessed an increasing amount of Hollywood films trying to pander to audiences in China by awkwardly inserting Chinese celebrities and other elements into their films, while China's movie investors have been pouring more money into overseas film studios with the expectation of seeing more Chinese stories and stars play more important parts in co-produced projects.

Cross-border marriages between Chinese capital and foreign movie studios have become increasingly common in recent years.

As recent as August, in what the Los Angles Times called "the latest example of Hollywood's push into China," Wanda struck a deal with big-screen theater company IMAX.

The new deal will see Wanda add another 150 theaters to its chain over the next six years.

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For sure, the increase is aimed at China's growing appetite for 3D and IMAX films.